See, Anya, I assumed that the gun-toting conservative in New Hampshire would ‘take them out’ with an SUV if a shotgun wasn’t available. My bad. Although, the turkeys may have sensed the presence of a institution of higher education, and known that there were liberals around.

They are big enough to cause significant damage if they decide to fight, Juanita. I don’t annoy them when I encounter them, as at the local university campus, but they usually choose to avoid humans. The problems usually start locally when the bears decide climbing a tree is a good idea.

Loss of habitat is a major problem down here, as St Joe Paper has started to develop a lot of the pine forests they own for pulp production. The critters can’t take on bulldozers.

They were beautiful but “up close and personal” they look a LOT larger than they do in pictures. Strange how that works.

C-list Bryan? I would suspect that any actual C-Lister would probably be insulted by that! Hmmm… No, come to think of it… maybe not. But they should be! 😉 😆

Anyway all.. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. (It’s not something we celebrate in Aus of course). 🙂

We get turkey vultures down along the coast, Juanita, but you need to go inland for the real ones. The best thing about wild turkeys is that you don’t have to clean up after them.

We get black bears, but they will leave if you don’t box them in. They aren’t looking for trouble, just a quick meal. If people would compost or keep their garbage cans closed, the bears wouldn’t come down to the coast. Of course in rural farm areas I would think that food is harder to come by, so they would probably get more aggressive. Actually, I have always looked on Goldilocks as a burglar.

It doesn’t seem to matter how often I see them, it’s still fun. Now, the three bears I saw were another story. And, no it wasn’t THOSE three bears 🙂 Goldilocks wasn’t in it.

   “sarah palin” turkey

and it will take you there.)